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Foundation welcomes three important organisations of the global publishing scene: EDItEUR, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM Association) and the Book...
Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025 to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the...
On July 23, 2025, the Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE) and nine of its members obtained the site-blocking of Japscan which had had allowed hundreds...
The 10 day long Assemblies concluded on 17 July with WIPO welcoming its 194th Member State, the Federated States of Micronesia, and reporting on progress...
In 2024, Dar Al Adab published Hoda Barakat’s novel Hind, which later went on to win the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literature...
Attacks in mid-June destroyed the Ukrainian Priority Publishing House and attacks on the night of 3rd July reduced the warehouse of Ukrainian PEN to rubble....
The IPA organises the International Publishers Congress every two years in cooperation with the IPA member in the host country. The Congress offers an unrivalled...
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and culture, is now accepting submissions across its ten categories...
Reacting to the news that Boualem Sansal’s 5 year prison sentence will stand, Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said:...